Chris Evangelista
Expertise
Horror Movies, Steven Spielberg Movies, Film Festivals
- Chris hosts the 21st Century Spielberg podcast.
- Chris co-wrote two YA horror books — "The House on Creep Street" and "Beware the Monstrous Manther!" — under the pen name The Blood Brothers.
- Chris is a member of the Critics Choice Association.
Experience
Chris Evangelista lives in Philadelphia — well, technically New Jersey, but let's keep that quiet. Chris has contributed to Fangoria, Mashable, The Guardian, The Playlist, Nerdist, and more. He is the Chief Film Critic of /Film as well as an editor. He writes the daily /Film newsletter.
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Stories By Chris Evangelista
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Martin Scorsese's next movie will be about the life of Jesus, clock in at about 80 minutes, and will be set in the present day.
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Lily Gladstone just became the first Indigenous person to win the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes for Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Everyone should've really left John Wick alone, but no, they had to go and kill his dog, and then look what happened! Here are the John Wick movies ranked.
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True Detective season 4, subtitled Night Country, is a chilling, creepy season and the best the show has been since season 1.
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The White Lotus season 3 cast includes Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, and more. Filming begins next month.
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Wes Craven is responsible for some of the most iconic horror movies of all time. Here, we're ranking 8 of his best movies.
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The Omen gets a prequel with The First Omen. Watch the horror movie's trailer right here ahead of its release in April.
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Glen Powell says the upcoming movie Twisters is definitely not a reboot of or a sequel to Twister, even though it sure seems like it is.
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Annabelle the doll is the subject of our latest ranking, as we look at the three films in the Annabelle series. Here are the Annabelle movies ranked.
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Let's leave 2023 by looking back at some of our best and worst reviewed movies of the year, including Barbie, Oppenheimer, Next Goal Wins, and more.
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Our latest Blu-ray round-up features Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Five Nights at Frreddy's and more.
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Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke face the end of the world in Sam Esmail's odd apocalyptic drama Leave the World Behind. Here's our review.
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John Woo came to Hollywood in the '90s, and now he's back again with Silent Night. But how would you rank his American films? Here's our ranking.
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Anya Taylor-Joy takes over for Charlize Theron in the Furiosa trailer. The Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comes from director George Miller.
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A film adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk has been kicking around for a few years, and now Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is attached to helm.
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Joel Kinnaman is out for revenge as a dialogue-free protagonist in John Woo's Silent Night. Read our review right here.
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What's new on Blu-ray? Glad you asked! Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Saw X, A Haunting in Venice, and more!
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If Mike Flanagan had made a third season of his Netflix Haunting series, he would've used Richard Matheson's Hell House as source material.
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The Crown season 6 part 1 marks the beginning of the end for the Netflix series about the royals. Here's our review.
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After watching the theatrical cut of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, you'll probably be wishing you waited for the director's cut instead. Here's our review.
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Jacob Elordi reveals he was asked to read for the part of Superman, but turned it down almost immediately. Here's why.
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Happy Holidays from Art the Clown, who returns for more bloody mayhem in the Terrifier 3 teaser.
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Following intense online backlash, Warner Bros. has decided not to shelve Coyote vs. Acme after all, and instead let it be shopped to a new distributor.
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Our latest Blu-ray round-up features Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Blue Beetle, The Nun II, and the 4K release of Fargo.
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Stephen King says the new film adaptation of Salem's Lot is good, so why the heck hasn't Warner Bros. released it yet?
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Marvel continues to have trouble bringing Blade to the MCU, so much so that star Mahershala Ali came close to leaving the project.
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Terrifier 2 director Damien Leone tells us the reason Terrifier 3 will be able to arrive quicker than the previous films in the franchise.